Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence.
Kim Edwards
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Kim Edwards
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Killeen
Texas
Simple
Utterly
Fact
Watched
Facts
Overcome
Task
Overcoming
Tasks
Serious
Norah
Existence
Absorbed
More quotes by Kim Edwards
All that sunny afternoon, traveling north and east, Caroline believed absolutely in the future. And why not? For if the worst had already happened to them in the eyes of the world, then surely, surely, it was the worst that they left behind them now.
Kim Edwards
In some deep place in her heart, Caroline had kept alive the silly romantic notion that somehow David Henry had once known her as no one else ever could. But it was not true. He had never even glimpsed her.
Kim Edwards
Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.
Kim Edwards
That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.
Kim Edwards
Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.
Kim Edwards
...bleak territory of the heart.
Kim Edwards
Photography is all about secrets... The secrets we all have and will never tell.
Kim Edwards
He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers.
Kim Edwards
It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.
Kim Edwards
Either things grow and change or they die.
Kim Edwards
You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.
Kim Edwards
You missed a lot of heartache, sure. But David, you missed a lot of joy.
Kim Edwards
Then she had been a fiancee, a young wife, and a mother, and she had discovered that these words were far too small ever to contain the experience.
Kim Edwards
After Memory Keepers Daughter, it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the Internet and sort of cloister myself away from the world again and sink into that psychic space to write again.
Kim Edwards
Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.
Kim Edwards
He had never even glimpsed her.
Kim Edwards
I love to swim, and I love being near water.
Kim Edwards
A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different moments, depending on who was seeing things and how.
Kim Edwards
Grief, it seemed, was a physical place.
Kim Edwards
Your understanding of a place changes the longer you stay you discover more, and your own life gets woven into the fabric of the community.
Kim Edwards